Parvus Accepts Contracts for DuraMAR 1000 Mobile Router, DuraNET 2955 Ethernet Switch and Related Comms Equipment

Salt Lake City, UT (USA) and AMARO, UD (ITALY) – February 25, 2009 – Eurotech announces that its US subsidiary Parvus has received contracts this month from two US defense contractors worth US $1.5 million and US $1 million, respectively, in support of US military programs. Due to non-disclosure agreements, specific information related to the customers and projects will not be disclosed at this time. These orders are expected to be fulfilled later this year.

Representing both repeat and new business for Parvus, the new customer orders are for rugged network communications devices, including the DuraMAR 1000 mobile router, DuraNET 2955 Ethernet switch, and/or other rugged communications equipment. These rugged subsystems support network-centric communications capabilities and are designed to meet the harsh environmental conditions commonly experienced by military land, air and sea vehicles.

Parvus Corporation is a leading supplier of rugged COTS computing and IP networking subsystems for Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) constrained military, aerospace, and homeland defense applications. Parvus’ tactical mission processors, network routers and Ethernet switch products provide highly reliable command, control, computing and communication (C4) capabilities for situational awareness and mobile data processing in airborne, ground vehicle, and naval installations. For more information, visit www.parvus.com.

THE EUROTECH GROUP
Eurotech (ETH.MI) is a company active in the research, development, production and marketing of miniaturised computers (NanoPCs) and of computers featuring high-performance computing capability (HPCs).

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